The biggest news around here is that my youngest daughter Megan has reached escape velocity! Next week (!) she's moving out to attend the School at the Art Institute of Chicago as a Photography major. We're pretty excited for her - and looking forward to a little trip to Chicago to help her settle in, first of many :) - but it will be weird having an empty nest. Whew.

"This leaves one last mechanism for resolving the dispute. We can make a modified version of the software, and put it to a vote of miners via the usual chain fork logic used for upgrades. If a majority upgrade to the new version and produce a larger than 1MB block, the minority would reject it and be put onto a parallel block chain. To get back in sync with the rest of the network they would then have to adopt the fork, clearly resolving the system in favour. If the majority never upgrade, the fork would never happen and the 1MB limit would be hit."

I've wondered myself: Where is the world's most remote city? "One Russian city sits on a distant peninsula surrounded by volcanoes. Iquitos, in the heart of the Amazon jungle, has no roads leading in or out. Then there are contenders in Tibet, Greenland, Australia …"

And what are those bright lights on Ceres, anyway? Is there already a colony there, signaling us? :)

Starting a startup? This is a great article by Noah Kagan: You're still modeling growth incorrectly. "Given the life-or-death importance of achieving growth, it's ironic that growth teams, marketers and founders often treat it as a matter of faith. Their execution plans amount to working really hard, then dropping on their knees to pray to the growth gods that everything will magically work." Guilty as charged.

Easy as 1,2,3,5: The Connoisseur Of Number Sequences. "For more than 50 years, the mathematician Neil Sloane has curated the authoritative collection of interesting and important integer sequences." Excellent.